Sierra Leone

Optimistic Sierra Leone president looks for foreign investment

Woolly Days (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has called on the west to invest in his country on a visit to London. Koroma told the BBC the West African nation is “open” to investment in tourism and mineral investment in bauxite, iron ore and diamonds. Koroma was spruiking his message at a conference last week in the British capital where he also hailed the recent Anadarko Petroleum’s...

Government of Sierra Leone Requests Terra Energy & Resource Technologies to Survey the Country

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TEGR), a natural resource exploration services technology company, announces that the Ministry of Natural Resources of Sierra Leone accepted the Company's proposal for a countrywide mapping for natural resources and requested an exploration contract draft, which the Company has now submitted...

The not so Special Court for Sierra Leone

New Internationalism (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

The trial of Charles Taylor has left an unhappy judicial legacy, argues *Sulakshana Gupta*.

Rule of law, property rights, and open markets needed for developing nations to avoid “resource curse”

Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

URL: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/newsandevents/news/6798.aspx . Source: Fraser Institute. Countries rich in natural resources need sound economic institutions such as rule of law, property rights, open markets, and an independent judiciary in order to grow their economies and avoid the “resource curse,” concludes a new study from independent research organization the Fraser Institute....

Dolat Ventures, Inc. : Dolat Ventures to Focus on West Africa Mining

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Dolat Ventures Inc. (OTCBB: DOLV) announced today that its soon to be acquisition Dove Diamonds & Mining, which intends to sell, market, distribute diamonds, minerals and precious gems in the United States and internationally, may seek to focus on potential mining operations in West Africa's Sierra Leone.

West Africa: Yellow Fever Vaccine Push Amid Shortages, Resurgence

All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

The world's first multi-country yellow fever vaccination campaign began on 23 November, with 12 million people targeted across Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The push comes as the killer mosquito-borne disease is resurging in some sub-Saharan African countries and vaccine stocks are running low.

Shouldn't charity begin at home 2 ?

BNP ELECTION RESULTS (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

A few days ago ( click here I said how we need to start looking after our own country first, and not be relying on charuty handouts to keep vital services running. The BNP HAVE THIS REPORT CLICK HERE on how we the UK public are 293 times less worthy it seems than the rest of the world. In the same week that Gordon Brown announced £1 million in flood aid to Cumbria, the Department For International...

• British People Put Last: £1 million Flood Relief to Cumbria, but £293 million in Foreign Aid in Same Week - British National Party
• Cumbria worth less to Gordon Brown’s government than road markings - Cllr. Martyn Findley (BNP)

Guinea: a dash through a dashing country

Listen to Africa (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

From Guinea-Bissau's Bijagos islands to Freetown, Sierra Leone: a dash through Guinea's beautiful landscapes and unstable political climate - by Land Rover. Guinea: a dash through a dashing country is a post from: Listen to Africa

Triangle of Deception

A Reader's Journal (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

by Haggai Carmon This is the write-up featured on the author's blog : "Working in a joint CIA/Mossad sting operation, Dan Gordon chose the path of deception – a triangle of deception. In this fourth installment in the Dan Gordon intelligence thriller series, Dan is on the hunt for the source of funding to terrorist group Hezbollah. He infiltrates the Lebanese network in the Paraguayan terrorist...

Coocoo Dennis' Alleged War Exploits Denied

All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Lead prosecutor and American lawyer Brenda Hollis Thursday bombarded former president Charles Taylor with series of unstoppable questions regarding alleged atrocities of one of his Generals - General Coocoo Dennis.

Rebel, President, CIA Spy

All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during the formative stages of his rebellion.

The Song That Sparks Governance Debate

All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Nothing has ever sparked a debate on the state of governance in the country like the song released by one of Sierra Leone's most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie.

NEPAD And Agra - Partnering for Action On Africa's Farms

All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development...

A cry of despair in the darkness

The Age (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Corruption is to blame for Sierra Leone's appalling infant mortality rates.

Sierra Leone police enlist youths

BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Sierra Leone is to enlist youths as young as 18 years old as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.